Turn off XSD validation of spring files

Question

Spring tries to validate xml confniguration files against xml schemas. Which is fine, but there might be cases when the validation fails (outdated schema, for example). Is there a way to turn off xsd validation?

Answer 1

See this Spring JIRA: https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-5014 - has both the team's comments on why they won't directly build it in as well as an example of how to implement yourself.